All articles by Robert Melia Watson – Page 9
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Pioneer promotes Pearson to head of equities
IRELAND – Dublin-based Pioneer Investments has promoted head of European equities Stan Pearson to the newly-created position of head of equities.
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CSAM picks Citi for unit trust and ICVC custody
UK – Credit Suisse Asset Management Funds (UK), part of the Credit Suisse Asset Management group (CSAM), has appointed Citibank Global Securities Services as trustee and custodian for an additional £1.2bn (€1.9bn) of its unit trust and ICVC – investment company with variable capital - assets.
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UK workers may be forced to join company schemes
UK – Employers may once again be able to force workers to join company pension funds if the government accepts one of the key recommendations in the upcoming pensions simplification review.
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FEFSI names Mansfeld as new president
EUROPE / GERMANY - The Brussels-based Fédération Européenne des Fonds et Sociétés d'Investissement (FEFSI), the pan-European federation of investment managers associations and companies, has appointed Wolfgang Mansfeld as its new president.
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New research gives trustees high praise
UK - Despite many trustees not having formal backgrounds in finance, they make good gatekeepers for your pension savings, says research by the UK’s Cranfield School of Management and Watson Wyatt.
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Swiss funds shun balanced management
SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension funds are increasingly moving towards specialist management, with overseas equities mandates gaining ground at the expense of domestic portfolios, according to the latest two-yearly survey of Swiss pension funds jointly produced by Robeco, Bilanz and Prévoyance Professionnelle Suisse.
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Top UK managers hit by loss of business in 2001
UK – The top five investment managers of segregated pension funds in the UK saw the value of their business fall last year, according to a Financial Times survey of pension fund managers, which blames the decline on the downturn in the financial markets and the shift among pension funds ...
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Irish Life launches capital guaranteed fund
IRELAND – Dublin-based financial services group, Irish Life International, has launched the Secured Growth Bond Series8 fund. The new fund, like its seven predecessors, offers full capital security.
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Seligman picks State Street for operations support
US – Boston-based State Street Corporation is to take over operations support for the $25bn (€26.7bn) assets under management of New York-based investment management firm, J&W Seligman.
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Chiswell announces double pension fund win
UK – London-based investment management firm Chiswell Associates has won two new pension fund mandates, worth £35m (€54.5m), from the staff pension scheme of building society Leeds and Holbeck and the Presbyterian Church of Wales pension scheme.
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Axa adds to its specialist equity team
UK – London-based Axa Rosenberg Investment Management has appointed Gordon Strachan as a UK portfolio manager to its specialist equity management team.
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Inflation fears stalk Euroland recovery
The recent spate of optimism in Euroland’s equity markets is beginning to wane as inflationary fears keep resurfacing. “I have very little confidence in the equity markets at the moment. It’s not that the markets are doing badly, but they have become somewhat stagnant. Until the ECB increases rates and ...
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Minister involves ABA at highest level
The ABA, the German Occupational Pensions Association, has called on labour minister Walter Riester to defer his plans to scrap deferred compensation in 2008. Speaking at the association’s annual conference in Bonn, the chairman of the ABA Boy-Jürgen Andresen, said he would prefer to see the deferred compensation scheme, remain ...
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Keeping tabs on 100 schemes
With more than 60,000 employees worldwide, the basic retirement benefit guideline at British American Tobacco (BAT) is that each scheme should be competitive in relation to local market practice. “Our employees are literally scattered around the globe, with no real concentration in any one country. Trying to coordinate our retirement ...
